Networking

Geert Lovink: Free Cooperations In P2p Networks

During the latest Video Vortex meeting organized by the Institute for Network Culture in Amsterdam at Club 11, the large networker's community met to analyze how video and other materials are shared through the net. In substance the questions that were addressed were how video and audiovisual information is used and shared through the net, how platforms like Vlog and podcast are developing and what tomorrow's television will look like in terms of clustering of information and free construction of programs with independent content.... READ MORE...

Video Vortex 2

Video Vortex.2 is a sequel to the Video Vortex exhibition that responded to the Web2.0 phenomenon. Web2.0 stands for power to the user and democracy for everyone. It has led to innovative forms of media use in which open and friendly cooperation stimulates critical reflection and new ideas.... READ MORE...

Beatpick@Enzimi2007

Giovedì 29 Novembre 2007 alle ore 21,00 , presso il Mattatoio di Testaccio , all'interno della rassegna " Talent's Out! Spazi Urbani per talenti pubblici", Enzimi ospita una selezione di band musicali, DJ e videoartisti a cura di Beatpick.com .... READ MORE...

Zone V2_

From 7 August through 11 October 2007 the exhibition ZONE V2_ will take place in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Taipei, organized by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, the Netherlands... READ MORE...

Peer Production: The Wealth Of Networks

A moment of opportunity and challenge that is how Yochai Benkler's book begins . In Italy The wealth of networks was published by Egea a couple of months ago but can be downloaded from the site www.omniacommunia.org as well.  cos" che si apre il libro di Yochai Benkler - La ricchezza della rete, uscito da qualche mese in italia per Egea ma anche disponibile al download dal sito www.omniacommunia.org .... READ MORE...

Disrupting Narratives

This international symposium brings together some of the world's leading media artists, theorists and researchers to explore real-time interaction in electronic media. Over the last few years network theories have started to shape our thinking about social and cultural issues. This event seeks out artistic strategies and art forms that engage with these ideas.... READ MORE...

Video Positive Festival

FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) unveils a new online archive giving public access to over 20 years of technological innovation to coincide with an exhibition re-visiting the organisation's ground-breaking visual arts festival, Video Positive.... READ MORE...

Challenge Of Networked Books: Gamer Theory

Since ages we have been used to take part to always new web writing forms, i.e. weblogs different in style and genre mushroom everywhere, and they are so many that they inspired -already 2 years ago- the name of an essay called BlogGeneration. In their amount there are included several kinds: from the private blogs, having none art pretence, to the literary ones, from those dealing with political issues to those constituting real art projects.... READ MORE...

Cultuur 2.0: Regarding Telematic Ecosystem

Prometheus fire has been a turning point for human life. At the same time, this brought problems to human race, that, for the theft to Gods, was condemned to live in a sad existential condition. The fire has been a technological innovation at that time, that we learned to dominate and use as instrument. Surely, Prometheus myth doesn't touch our minds on when we turn on our stove!... READ MORE...

Profiling

Two public art installations that explore the use of automated systems for "profiling" people comprise Profiling, an exhibition that begins on June 8 and runs through September 9, 2007, at the Whitney Museum of American Art.... READ MORE...